Democracy
& Nature, vol 4
no 1
Donna
J. Haraway and Technology
Jhan
Hochman
Abstract:
Donna J. Haraway grinds no fundamental ax
against technics. While acknowledging high technology as the
offspring of patriarchal capitalism, militarism and state
socialim, she maintains that high tech communications users
can renounce these ‘fathers’, use technology to contest
inequality and ‘reinvent’ nature. To the contrary, I argue
that the mass and high technologies are made possible only
by the capital input of States and Corporations, both which
stand ready to protect investments and profits with
militarism. More fundamentally, I argue that mass procurance,
manufacture, testing, distribution, use, maintenance, and
disposal necessary to technology yields a weapon of mass
destruction against nature mysteriously absent from
Haraway‘s discussion of 'reinventing' nature as a
non—resource through high technology.